Existence and location of solutions to the Dirichlet problem for a class of nonlinear elliptic equations (Q5938893)

The paper is devoted to the existence of at least one weak solution for a Dirichlet problem of the following problem NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\begin{cases} -\Delta u= g(x,u)+ h(x,u)+ \alpha(x)+{1\over\mu} (f(x,u)+ \ell(x,u)+ \beta(x)),\quad\text{in }\Omega\\ u|_{\partial\Omega}= 0,\end{cases}\tag{1}NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where, \(f(x,\cdot)\), \(g(x,\cdot)\) have a subcritical growth, and \(h(x,\cdot)\), \(\ell(x,\cdot)\) are nonincreasing, with a critical growth. The author shows that, for explicitly determined \(\psi: \mathring H^1(\Omega)\to \mathbb{R}\), and \(\varphi: (r,+\infty)\to [0,+\infty)\), with \(r^*= \inf_{\mathring H_1(\Omega)}\psi\), for each \(r> r^*\) and each \(\mu> \varphi(r)\), the equation (1) has at least one weak solution that belongs to \(\psi^{-1}((-\infty, r))\). The proof is based on a critical point theorem recently established by the author.